Sr. Hardware Engineer

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

As a Senior Hardware Engineer, you'll design and develop hardware components for our products. You'll provide technical leadership on critical projects. You'll ensure hardware meets required specifications, as well as reliability and industry standards. You'll collaborate with teams to resolve issues, define system needs, and specify hardware/product requirements. Designing and developing hardware systems, and evaluating and recommending emerging technologies.
Synthesizing multiple inputs and leveraging in-depth knowledge and creativity to solve complex organizational and operational problems.
Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure project success and timely delivery.
Creating and maintaining necessary documentation and driving best practices.
Acting as a subject matter expert and advisor. Teaching less experienced personnel design, development and problem solving best practices. Engineering on-time delivery
New product design targets Education - Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering or a related technical field with significant engineering experience.
Skill - Able to complete large engineering projects with independence and expertise.
Skill -
Proficient in reading and understanding circuit schematics (digital, analog, micro-controllers), component specifications, and assembly drawings.
Skill - Excellent communication skills with ability to guide and mentor others.
Experience - Experience in component selection and understanding of component reliability Drives and Delivers Impact - Delivers Results: Does what it takes in order to consistently meet expectations. Action-Oriented: Approaches work with a sense of urgency and drive. Prioritize: Identifies the vital few and focuses resources and energy on the most impactful tasks. Executional Rigor: Uses metrics to measure progress and inform decision-making.
Collaborative Team Player - Collaborative: Is intentional about seeking input and including others when making decisions. Humility: self aware, vulnerable, willing to reflect critically on opportunities for self improvement. Interpersonal Influence: listens, masters productive conflict, works across functions and BU boundaries.Trustworthy: Builds trusting relationships by being transparent and acting with integrity.
Problem Solving - Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.
Decision Quality - Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; most of his/her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought tout by others for advice and solutions.
Dealing with Ambiguity - Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things up before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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